Nineties Quotes · Page 2

“There may be fewer people in the American house of the nineties, but there are a lot more things.”

— Witold Rybczynski

In the late nineties, Katy Grannan began making haunting photographs of people who had extraordinary inner yens to be seen by strangers.

— Jerry Saltz

I remember thinking the Nineties were uncool: 'I landed in the generation where nothing happens.'

— Maren Morris

My choice growing up was the 'Star Wars' role playing game. At that time in the Nineties, they had a pretty robust…

— Thomas Middleditch

In the nineties I was doing those Blues Bureau records, but over the past two years, I have really gone back to…

— Rick Derringer

I was in the debating society at school, I was the president of the Oxford Union, and then I became an MP…

— Gyles Brandreth

English television from the Fifties to the Nineties was the least bad in the world, and now it's just as bad as…

— John Cleese

Ireland has always been a nation of great athletes from the past: in the nineties, we had Sonia O'Sullivan and Steve Collins.

— Finn Balor

It's very difficult today for girls to become supermodels. There is a lot more competition, a lot of countries in the East…

— Claudia Schiffer

The first chance I had to go to Japan, which was in the early nineties, I went to a Noh play. I…

— William T. Vollmann

In the Nineties, there was all this new research into brain development, with evidence saying poor kids fall behind in school because…

— Pamela Druckerman

The nineties as a pop cultural sphere was a really fertile time for feminism that was grounded and located in popular culture.…

— Andi Zeisler

When I first started coming to New York in the early Nineties and seeing the vitality of the programme compared to what…

— Thomas P. Campbell

I wound up getting a lot of other opportunities in the nineties, and then sort of as quickly as it started, it…

— Janeane Garofalo

I grew up with Burberry; as a kid in London in the nineties and early noughties it was everywhere and we all…

— Naomi Ackie

Billions of photos are shot every year, and about the toughest thing a photographer can do is invent an original, deeply personal,…

— Jerry Saltz

“The Female Orgasm. The Big O. That elusive, reclusive Loch Ness of the labia. Does it prove the existence of God, or…

— Kirstie Collins Brote

I used really into inline skating when it was the craze in the nineties and I got a really bad scar to…

— Pedro Capo

I'm heavily influenced by the Nineties - I love juxtaposing a slip dress with trainers and a vintage leather jacket.

— Dua Lipa

I joined the RCP (Revolutionary Communist Party) in the early '80s. I'd be in it still but it was wound up at…

— Claire Fox

Italian football in the eighties and nineties was the most beautiful league in the world. The hardest, most beautiful of all.

— Sven-Goran Eriksson

I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.

— Zadie Smith

In the nineties, the PT had wrongly decided to attribute its electoral failures to its virtues.

— Fernando Haddad

I remember going to see those Adrian Lyne films when I was going to see movies in the nineties, and I was…

— Michael De Luca

Back in the Nineties, I was in an R&B group. I signed my first record deal when I was 12.

— Poo Bear

What I particularly liked about Nineties hip hop was it had a certain reverence for the groove that I hadn't been hearing…

— Michael McDonald

I think the ladette culture was a label thing, and it was the nineties and it was Britpop and it was quite…

— Zoe Ball

There is nothing inherently wrong with a brain in your nineties. If you keep it fed and interested, you'll find it lasts…

— Marjory Stoneman Douglas

We might take it for granted now, but back in the nineties, who was talking about mental health?

— Emma Corrin

Since the early Nineties it's been very fashionable to say, 'It's all about the music.'

— Chris Robinson

The most important single fact about pop music in the Nineties, is the number of hours made commercially available increased by an…

— Robert Christgau

When I look back at the Nineties, I realise there wasn't very much TV I wanted to do.

— Nicola Walker

Life is different than it was in the Nineties. I'm a dad, and there are other things I have to get done…

— Chris Robinson

A lot of men were also becoming more attuned and less afraid of women [in the nineties ].

— Dar Williams

If the seventies were bulbous, and the eighties sharp, the nineties were nothing but bogus.

— Will Self

I miss the silliness of the Nineties. What would society be like if 9/11 never happened? If that silliness was extended forever?

— Douglas Coupland

In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.

— Lou Holtz

Hollywood gave us far more Muslim terrorists in the Eighties and Nineties than it has since 9/11.

— Mark Steyn

The end of the Nineties was an unhappy Primus camp. I hit a creative stagnation that wasn't helping us forward, and the…

— Les Claypool

Gerald Wilson was one of my mentors: he was in his nineties before he passed and, literally, every time I saw him,…

— Kamasi Washington